I would guess with everything that's happening in Mexico, the more your jet blends in with the other business jets, the better for safety.
Obviously the registration is still visible, but every little bit has to help. A painted tail is easier to spot from a distance than a plane's registration.

Well, I am looking for photos, but I have seen several Citation X's, Gulfstreams, and Lears in ALL white, one of the X's has a white paint with silver letters... Seems to me that BlueFlyer's comment is more correct.

Quoting BlueFlyer (Reply 1):I would guess with everything that's happening in Mexico, the more your jet blends in with the other business jets, the better for safety.

Quoting my1le (Reply 4):Seems to me that BlueFlyer's comment is more correct.

And I'm not buying it. All white planes are extremely rare. I can assure you nobody is trying to blend in. If anything the plane went in for an inspection and they gave it a repaint, and stuck to plain white because it's cheap. Or, the more likely scenario, they will add the stripes later on.

Quoting my1le (Reply 4):
I was also thinking it may simply be due to heat, having a dark stripe all over the cabin may cause it to draw heat and make it harder to cool in the summer in Mexico.

Quoting ghost77 (Reply 6):Alright. You know, that after the US, Mexico has the second biggest bizjet (props and jets) fleet in the world

That's actually a pretty interesting statistic if true. I would've guessed it would be something like the UK or an oil-rich nation like the UAE or Saudi Arabia (although I suppose Mexico has a good share of the oil industry too).

I wonder if there are any 'tax haven' nations (maybe around the Caribbean?) that have a disproportionate amount of bizjets registered compared to the total population?

The cost saving factor is true... after I read that, I remember a customer whos flight department painted their jet in ALL White, so it would appeal (somehow) to buyers. Their reasoning was it would cost the future buyer more to remove and paint a stripe than to just buy a "blank canvas" and add their own colors.

It was just something I had wondered over the years seeing these jets arrive into the US.

It's hard to do an accurate count because, for taxes or other reasons, every country has aircraft operating within the country while sporting another country's registration, but the ranking listed above is generally assumed to be correct. To give you some idea of the difficulty, until a recent (or soon-to-be) change in Russian law, the concept of a private business jet did not exist. If you owned an aircraft of any decent size, you were required to be structured as and treated like an airline, which required among other things a staff of at least 30 employees. As a result, in 2009, there were less than 100 business jets registered in Russia and approximately 500 more operated regularly in Russia, owned by Russian interested, but registered elsewhere.

While the Russian situation is somewhat extreme, there are many countries and many reasons where planes fly with another country's registration.

Another example is Mexico where, if I recall correctly, about half the private planes owned by Mexican interests are registered outside of Mexico, mostly in the US.

Quoting BlueFlyer (Reply 9):Another example is Mexico where, if I recall correctly, about half the private planes owned by Mexican interests are registered outside of Mexico, mostly in the US.

Very true, even we have a lot of XA-s and XB-s Bizjets, thousands of Novembers birds flying with Mexican crews are here. It's cheaper to fly every 6 months your birds to the US and return it than making it Mexican.

That Russian law is stupid!! Russia is such a big country, if that law changes, it might be up to par with Mexico and Brazil in very few years.